Notes for the 10-11-04 Harmony in My Head Show. 

Hello. Its Saturday night, October 9th. I am in Los Angeles for a few more hours and then I am going back to LAX and heading out for a few shows. This is the other show that Engineer X and I taped a couple of weeks ago. It looks like I might have to tape some more in the next couple of weeks as I start a film that works every Monday but I cant get a shooting schedule yet. I will see what kind of time Engineer X can give me and perhaps he and I can tape stuff on Sunday. I have the feeling we will be working six day weeks on this one. Ive been flying a lot lately and I have all my airport chops back. I have Dulles, LAX, Denver and OHare wired. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the show. Its strange writing all this stuff now even though the show hasnt happened yet but it kind of has. 
Great stuff out now: New Q and Not U album called Power, new Miles box set, the Lenny Bruce box is finally out and the Ayler box is out as well. Happy listening. --Henry

Harmony in My Head Transmission for October 11th 2004

Roxy Music  Both Ends Burning: This song is from Roxys very fine Siren album. What a song, what a band. This album, For Your Pleasure, Country Life, Manifesto, Stranded, the first album, I listen to these records all the time. Incredible playing, singing and composing. I know Steve Jones plays Roxy all the time and you might have had your fill of this band but for me, theres never too much Roxy Music.

The Mad  Frying Pan: I saw there was a Mad CD listed online. The mention said it had the singles and some live stuff. I figured it would be worth it if it was what it said it was. Those singles are really rare. Some of you may remember I played a crackly version of this song weeks ago. Cool song, lots of surface noise. Anyway, one great day, the CD arrived and it sounds great! So tonight we have a better sounding version. Consider it an upgrade!

The Adverts  We who Wait: One of the great singles from the Adverts. There's a great singles comp. CD of the Adverts worth checking out. It might be just me but theres no Adverts song I dont like. The two albums, Crossing the Red Sea and Cast of Thousands are great records. Im sure the Punk 77 site has all the Adverts info you can handle. 

Einsturzende Neubauten  Auf Berlin: Might be the single most disturbing record to your favorite guest Heidi May. I play this one and she shuts the door to my office extra hard. This song is from the bands first album Kollaps. This album, Drawings of Outpatient OT and Halber Mensch are my personal favorites but I know a lot of people like the mid period stuff like House of Lies. 

Ennio Marricone  Lonesome Billy: I got this from a Marricone Western Film comp. called The Legendary Italian Westerns Volume 2. Ive had for many years. So much drama in such a short song! I used to put this song on comp. tapes I would make for girls. Guys, dont put this song on a mix CD youre making for a girl.

Skulls  Victim: From the Therapy for the Shy CD. Not the original version but really good. The Skulls are one of the old school LA punk rock bands. I ran into Billy Bones the other night at the Ramones show. Theres a cool record the Skulls did years ago with LA band the Controllers. They called themselves Skull Control and I think the record is called Radio Danger. Cool stuff. 

Sods  Copenhagen: We listened to their song Pathetic weeks ago. They only did one record, its called Minutes to Go. Finally, its on CD. Only out of Denmark I think. Worth checking out. I wish there was more interest in music like this so I could license some titles and release them here without making people have to search high and low for records at stupid prices. This one will cost you unless you can find it used. Worth it though. The Sods changed their name to Sort Sol and released a bunch of records under that name. Theyre cool too.

Boozoo Chavis  Im Ready Me: I played Dog Hill before and its off the same album called Boozoo Chavis. I have all his records that I know of but this is the one I play the most. Hes one of those guys who didnt make a bad one I think. I saw him play once, it was great. 

Richard Kiley  Dream: I was very young when Richard Kiley did his last tourof Man of la Mancha. One day my mother informed me that she had gotten tickets for the show and we were going. On instinct I protested and she repeated that we were going but in a louder voice and a great deal of passion so I decided just to go. Thanks to my mothers good taste and charitable feelings towards me I saw one of the greatest shows ever for free. Richard Kiley was amazing. Beyond amazing. Chills. The voice, the presence. I remember it now. I had a hard time explaining this one to the meatheads at school. 

Funkadelic  Back in Our Minds: We thought we were going to listen to Superstoopid but we got Back of Our Minds instead. This is off the Maggot Brain album. A must have. If we get the 24 hours of H8 broadcast, well play the cut Maggot Brain that features the very great but sadly very departed Eddie Hazel.There's some Funkadelic records not to be missed. Hardcore Jollies, America Eats Its Young, Electric Spanking of War Babies get a lot of rotation at my bunker but theyre all pretty great. 

Diamanda Galas  Do Room: From Schrei X released in 1996. Wait, this might be an even more ultimate door slammer for Heidi. I have known Diamanda for about 19 years now. I met her by writing her a fan letter in 1985. I met her soon after. She turned me onto Artaud and Iannis Xenakis. Shes done a lot of stuff and I have all her records but I dont know if I could recommend them to anyone. I like them but I am easily bent. I saw her do this show in NYC once, it was called Insekta. It was one of the heaviest things I have ever seen. She finished the show in a cage suspended over the stage. Backstage after the show, I met Debbie Harry and was completely, I dont know, that thing where it takes about 8 seconds for Hi to come out of your mouth and it sounds like youre reading the word off the page for the first time. Im sure Ms. Harry and Ms. Galas are used to that by now. Dog is mans best friend, not womans. D.Galas.

Skip James  Devil Got My Woman: I dont think weve played Skip James on the show yet. Hes another one of those guys where its all good. You might find the 1931 recordings more surface noise than music but its good anyway. You might want to check out the Devil Got My Woman and Skip James Today! Albums to start. He wrote a song called Im so Glad that was covered by Cream. Clapton loves the real blues stuff. 

John Coltrane  Stellar Regions: From the album Stellar Regions. I think this one came out in 95 or 96 right? I was living in NYC at the time and it became heavy rotation in my hell hole apartment. Its from 1967 and its supposed to be one of Coltranes last ever sessions. Its amazing and somewhat frustrating to me at least in that you can tell hes about to turn a corner in his playing and we never had the chance to hear where he was going to take it and thats hard. Its sometimes hard for me to listen to Coltrane, even though hes my favorite musician. Its the same frustration I sometimes feel with Hendrixneither guy got to finish. Anyway, theres no bad Coltrane. He was pure all the way. 

Velvet Underground  Im Set Free: From the 3rd Vu album called Velvet Underground. John Cale had left and the band sounds different. The sheer insanity of the previous release White Light White Heat is replaced with less chaos no less great material. Im Set Free has one of the greatest lyrics Ive ever heard. Im set free to find a new illusion . . . Brutal!

Richard Berry  The Big Break: I cant get away from Richard Berry. Twenty years of listening and Im still all over this guy. This has to be one of the all time greatest vocals. The chorus where Berry says, Run, run real fast, it sounds like he can barely get up much less take part in a successful prison break. Found on the Get Out of the Car CD. 

Alan Vega  Video Babe: Youre welcome! Many years ago, I was Alan Vega's place and saw a stack of reel-to-reel tapes between a heater and a stereo system. I asked the Great One what they were and replied that they were masters to some of his records. A great way to ruin tape. Stacked like pancakes, next to heat and speakers. Disaster. I asked if I could take the tapes away and back them up and he said sure. I took the tapes to a studio in LA and transferred all of them to digital. The master for the Saturn Strip basically fell apart after we copied it. My transfer was used for this CD re-release. Its all aboutthe back up! New on Wounded Bird Records. 

El Guapo  Space Tourist: Another cut off the Fake French album. I love this 
album. Its on Dischord. 

Garnet Mimms  Cry Baby: This is off the Mimms best of CD. A Great soul singer. This song is on soundtracks and compilation records all the time. I dont know anything about him and cant find a solid site that has info on him. Cool song though. 

Piranhas  Coffee: I first heard this band on a comp. album. They had a song called Jilly that I thought was cool so I checked out their other stuff and it's pretty cool and then a couple of years ago, I found a comp. CD on the Anagram label online and got it. 

The Fall  Two Librans: From the very fine Unutterable album. Another great song from this record is Ketamine Sun. 

Buzzcocks  Why Cant I Touch It?: The b-side of the Everybodys Happy 
Nowadays single. The Singles Going Steady CD with the classic eight singles is desert island listening to my ears. Classic stuff and one of the most played bands on my stereo for about twenty-five years now. 

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Thanks for listening.